Web,Surfing,amp,#58,404,Errors DIY Web Surfing: 404 Errors
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We've all received an error like the one shown below: File not found - requested URL not found on this serverIt's annoying, especially when you've searched for something and found whatlooks like the perfect site. At least the description exactly matches yourneeds. You click and boom, a 404 error appears. Whoops. What happened tothat perfect site?There are several reasons why this error occurs. I guess the thing that youneed to remember is the internet is very fluid. In fact, it changesconstantly. Sometimes a site is changing while you are looking at it. I canremember several times I was examining a site and returned to a page that Ihad seen only moments before and found it to be different! That can be veryunnerving, to say the least.So what sometimes happens is a webmaster changes his site around andobsoletes links. If he's a rank amateur, he'll break links within his ownsite. This does happen sometimes, but any webmaster worth his salt isconstantly checking and rechecking his site to be sure it works and workswell. After all, the only way to test something is to use it. And the onlyway to see if a site really works is to surf it.More often, someone has linked to a site and that site changes. Since it canbe difficult if not impossible to determine who has linked to a site, linksbreak. Now, really good webmasters never ever delete a page on their site. Whatthey do is create redirect pages. Thus, if I have a page called "barbi.htm"and I want to delete it, I will modify the page to tell the visitor it nolonger exists and redirect him to another page in my site. This way I willnot loose traffic simply because I've deleted or renamed a page.This constant checking of one's own web site will also catch another commonerror: misspelling a hyperlink. When I create a hyperlink, I either browseto the target using my web editor, or I cut and paste the link directly outof Internet Explorer. I never type the hyperlink in myself, which reducesthe possibility of error greatly!Also common is the webmaster who does not understand that many servers arecase sensitive. This means that "Richard" is not the same as "richard". Youwill see this sometimes if a webmaster moves a site from a server which isnot case sensitive (VAX/OpenVMS) to one that is (Unix).Sometimes a site simply moves to another host. This frequently happens whena site outgrows it's host. I know of one site that had to move several timesbecause it's bandwidth demands became huge! According to the webmaster thissite was getting tens of thousands of visitors every day, and all of themwere downloading tremendous amounts of pictures. He was booted off oneserver with no notice and no backup and had to rebuild his site fromscratch! This kind of event will certainly cause 404 errors!More rarely, a webmaster has been in the process of uploading his site whenhis upload software crashed. This may leave broken links for a short timeuntil the problem is fixed.Generally an ISP will provide, at least for a short time, a redirect page toa new site. You will see this as a "My site has moved. If you are nottransported in 10 seconds click here" message.And of course some sites simply shut down. This is actually getting morerare as it's often more expensive for an ISP to delete old data than it issimply to prevent updates.Search engines are notorious for their broken links. You have to remember that most search engines only examine web sites every month or so (sometimesthe delay is as long as six months). Because of this, all of the aboveproblems can occur, leaving broken links. Article Tags: Broken Links
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